Dr. J. E. Gray on some new species of Reptiles, 389 



Australia, being the only instance on record of a lizard having 

 such an extensive geographic range ; some have supposed that it 

 may have been introduced by American ships to the two latter 

 localities. 



Fam. ZoNURiDiE. 

 Sect. 1. Pseudopina, 



DOPASIA. 



Head pyramidal ; super-nasal shields small, numerous, three 

 pair ; the first pair with a small central intermediate super-rostral 

 scale ; the hinder pairs broader, transverse ; a small central 

 frontal scale, with a larger scale on each side in front of the 

 large hinder frontal plate. Nostrils lateral, in a small nasal plate. 

 Ears very small, open. Cheeks and temples covered with small 

 scales. Vertebral shield elongate, surrounded by a series of 

 smaller shields ; occipital shield triangular, with an oblong shield 

 on each side, and a small triangular one behind it. Eyelids 

 distinct, covered with thin imbricate scales. Body cylindrical, 

 with a deep groove on each side. Scales keeled, becoming 

 smoother. Limbs none. 



Dopasia gracilis. 

 Brown ; back with a few small white-edged dark spots ; sides 

 with a broad continued blackish streak to the end of the tail. 



Pseudopus gracilis, Gray, Cat. Kept. B.M. 56. 



Hab. Khassia Hills. 



Believing that this species had the rudimentary hinder limbs 

 of the European and Northern Asiatic genus Pseudopus, I re- 

 ferred it to that genus when I described it in the Catalogue 

 of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum ; a more 

 cautious examination of a better specimen has shown that it has 

 no such members, and hence agrees with the American genus 

 Ophiosaurus or Glass Snake : some peculiarities in the scales of 

 the head induce me to separate it from that genus and form 

 one for it. This is not the only instance of a similarity of the 

 Northern Indian reptiles with those of the New Continent. 



Fam. CoLUBRiD^. 



Coronella puncticulatus. 



Pale brown, closely minutely black punctulated with obscure 

 rather distant narrow dark cross bands placed in pau's ; beneath 

 paler. Ventral shields very obscurely keeled on each side, the 

 keels marked by a continued whitish streak, and often with a 

 square black spot occupying all the shield above the keel. Tail 



